Arright. Starting a new stream-of-consciousness read-through.
First, ofc, is re-evaluating old reads in light of the flip.
SOLID TOWNLIST
Creature
Klick
ofrhz
PROBABLY TOWN
RedPanda
?
Menalque
Pink Ball
POSSIBLE SCUMTEAM 1
RC/Tim
GEmerald
?
POSSIBLE SCUMTEAM 2
Detective Pikachu
POSSIBLY SCUM ON EITHER TEAM
Chemist
Espresso Patronum
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Tim flipping Town has me going 'meh'. RC at his best is frustrating to read. This is great for his scumgame, where he can be a loose cannon and just blame his meta, but it's awful for fellow Townies, who are hopeless to read his erratic behavior and have to step lightly around him. He's good, but it's often his way or the highway. I haven't
technically
gotten there yet, but I know DP is about to get cleared too, so I have to cross him off. This doesn't vindicate GEmerald, but it does remove the most damning piece of evidence against him. That leaves me with Chemist and Espresso Patronum, the latter of whom I was having doubts about. While it's nice to consolidate, it does deflate my working theories a bit. Recent events make me want to take another look at GEmerald, RP, and ofhrz, too.
Okay, getting started on Page 40.
+I don't like RP's daystart. His push on Menalque seems I don't know, empty? I haven't seen any really good reasons for it, and none of them original to RP iirc.
1017 - Okay, I'm going to level with you all. When I got to this post, DP's declaration of being inducted into the Hood, I had a mini-epiphany, and thought HOLY SHIT THIS COULD BE FAKE. Practically everyone had posted, no one else had claimed the hood, and the action failing is entirely possible if Tim/RC targeted scum. It'd be free clearance. Hell, I did something similar in DC Universe Mafia back in the day, where I waited to be the last player to post D1 and fakeclaimed Miller in my post 1. It worked flawlessly. So I grabbed a pad and started scribbling, crossing off names. When DP posted, only Chemist, Klick, ofrhz, and DP himself hadn't posted at least once. With at least one of those likely scum, it's not an *insane* risk, but still improbable, especially with the level of detail in the alleged Hood conversation. So never mind, he's probably telling the truth.
Thought I had something there for a sec
1026 - Chemist brings up VCA of the lynchwagon. Three confirmed Townies on it, incl Firebringer himself. Chemist bringing this up makes me immediately suspicious - it's SUPER early to try VCA, and that makes me think it might make the incipient VCA misleading/disingenuous. However, I've got three suspects on it (EP, GEmerald, RP) so I'll keep it in mind.
1032 -
1040 - Creature continues to obvtown, saying a lot of what I just said.
1033 is particularly insightful, I probably shouldn't give RP a pass on the hammer.
1042 - Go home, Klick, you're drunk. Creature just analyzed the VCA like a fucking champ.
1047 +
1047 - GEmerald downplaying the VCA. What are you afraid of?
1059 -
1064 - Ewwww. RedPanda trying to mayor the Townbloc is really slimy here.
1066 +
1068 - Menalque's walls here make me think of a conspiracy theorist and their little shrine of evidence about a topic no one else cares that deeply about. As far as I'm considered, that's hyperTownie. I don't think it's nearly as compelling as Menalque does, but HE finds it compelling, and that's sufficient to reaffirm my TR on Menalque.
1080 - Oh fuck yeah, Chemist is scum. Not even really trying to hide it, is he? Just openwolfing onto the GEmerald wagon. Can't dismiss this as a poorly-executed bus, though.
+Pages 44-46 start with Creature spouting some very nice wisdom about how off-topic discussion ruins games and Town of Salem sucks, then engaging in a 2.5-page rant off-topic. Bad form, my man. Made for easy 2AM reading before it veered back on topic though.
FUCKING PREACH. Activity tells are absolute trash.
1188 - PB nails why Chemist is scum. Chemist is trying to look like he's trying, and failing at it.
>>>>Bottom of page 50 pause. Yeah, not many posts called out lately, but a lot if it is because ~60% of the 40s was Creature talking to himself. The back half of the 40s was like 80%. RedPanda is looking worse, Chemist is openwolfing. I'm a bit annoyed that Creature was on Chemist and seems to have talked himself out of it, but it is what it is. Current scumteam looks like {Chemist, two of RP/GE/EP}. Come to think of it, EP's been super quiet.<<<<<
1258 - Nice, I didn't catch that.
1260 - I don't buy this response from RP.